Wait-I thought Newt Is the Guy Who Has Too Much “Baggage?”

After Newt’s victory in the South Carolina primary, we were subjected to an endless supply of elected and unelected democrats (the latter sometimes known as “journalists”), parading before the cameras to tell us how Axelod, Plouffe and even Obama Himself were doing the Happy Dance at the prospect of running against Speaker Gingrich.

In 1989, Bain Capital purchased controlling interest in Damon Corp., a medical testing company located in Needham, Massachusetts.

During the time that Bain held its ownership of the company, Mitt Romney personally sat on the Board of Directors. And during that same period, Damon Corp. was busy submitting fraudulent reimbursement claims to Medicare to the tune of millions of dollars charged for unnecessary blood tests.

It gets worse.

When Mitt Romney was confronted with the matter during his campaign to become the Governor of Massachusetts, Romney acknowledged that he didhave some awareness of the funky things going on at Damon.

More than a decade later, when Romney was in pursuit of the Massachusetts governorship, his Democratic opponent Shannon O’Brien accused him of lax oversight at Damon and failing to report the fraud.

Romney replied that he had helped uncover the illegal activity at Damon, asking the board’s lawyers to investigate. As a result, he said, the board took “corrective action” before selling the company in 1993 to Corning Inc.

So, then, the future Governor and candidate for his party’s nomination to run for the presidency, did fulfill his obligation as a great American and did report the fraud to the proper authorities, right?

Here’s another shocker. While the company eventually went bankrupt, with thousands losing their jobs, Bain Capital walked away with a $12 million profit—a little over $400,000 of that money ending up in Mitt’s pocket.

I’m prepared to listen to additional information, but remind me again. Which candidate is the most electable? And which one’s biography and record are a big fat fastball in the Obama campaign’s wheelhouse?